MANDEL’SHTAM, Osip Emilievich (1891-1938). Vtoraia kniga. [Second Book]. Moscow-St Petersburg: KRUG, 1923 [November 1922]. Important first revised edition – the author’s preferred version of his second collection of poetry. Mandelsh’tam was disappointed with the Berlin edition of his second book – Tristia – published in 1922; he sustained that it had been put together by ungrammatical people without his knowledge and against his will (Martin). For this edition, he completely reorganised the sequence, adding fourteen new poems and deleting sixteen. The sequencing is especially important, because Mandel’shtam wrote interlinked poems in a chronological sequence. Briusov reviewed Vtoraia kniga as ‘insufficiently Marxist or modern’; soon after, Mandel’shtam’s name was removed from the lists of authors allowed to publish in literary periodicals. Kilgour 698. R. Eden Martin, ‘Collecting Mandelshtam’, Caxtonian, 24 (2006), p. 7. Octavo (140 x 110mm). (Uniform slight age browning, the odd spot). In the original wrappers, in modern folding box (few minor marginal repairs). Provenance: indistinct signature (upper wrapper) – modern shelfmark (rear wrapper). Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.
MANDEL’SHTAM, Osip Emilievich (1891-1938). Vtoraia kniga. [Second Book]. Moscow-St Petersburg: KRUG, 1923 [November 1922]. Important first revised edition – the author’s preferred version of his second collection of poetry. Mandelsh’tam was disappointed with the Berlin edition of his second book – Tristia – published in 1922; he sustained that it had been put together by ungrammatical people without his knowledge and against his will (Martin). For this edition, he completely reorganised the sequence, adding fourteen new poems and deleting sixteen. The sequencing is especially important, because Mandel’shtam wrote interlinked poems in a chronological sequence. Briusov reviewed Vtoraia kniga as ‘insufficiently Marxist or modern’; soon after, Mandel’shtam’s name was removed from the lists of authors allowed to publish in literary periodicals. Kilgour 698. R. Eden Martin, ‘Collecting Mandelshtam’, Caxtonian, 24 (2006), p. 7. Octavo (140 x 110mm). (Uniform slight age browning, the odd spot). In the original wrappers, in modern folding box (few minor marginal repairs). Provenance: indistinct signature (upper wrapper) – modern shelfmark (rear wrapper). Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.
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